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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

him mechanism more scientific than the
human throat" If it should be discovered
that he has he will draw like a knockdown
between editors.
Coquelin, as he is written about, is all art
ist. If he is known to any one in the more
natural character of man and citizen nobody
has said anything about it yet. In the begin
ming of his life he was Benoit Constant Co
quelin; but he has dropped the first name
and is simply Constant Coquelin now. He
was born on the 23d of January, 1S4l, at Bou-
logne-sur-mer, and his father was respect
able baker. He is, then, 46 years old. Not
young as the world rates age, and not old as
the stage rates it. The land of the footlights
knows no old age for its great people.
Genius can throttle Time, the enemy, and live
to the last in an atmosphere of deathless
youth.
He laments that the beautiful art Of the
actor is perishable-even more SO than the
painters. This he calls the misfortune of his
craft, as it is cheated thereby of the supreme
consolation Of unappreciated genius, the ap-
peal to posterity. He says: "However, mis-
fortune though it be- it is no degradation.
We are to be pitied for it, that is all. Love
us the more for it, dear, charitable public,
since you are at once our present and our
future, and our Immortality dies with the
echo of your applause"
NJ. Coquelin has the sensible idea of genius,
too. He believes it is closely related to per-
sistence and hard work, and that inspiration
is wrought out and not waited for He says:
Nothing is more likely to produce inspira-
ton than good, hard, preparatory work" He
has carried out his theory; he has worked in
cessantly. He was admitted to the Comedie
Francaise when but q years of age, and be-
came societaire at "a, all of which meant
that he had paid for these privileges in the
coin Of eternal vigilance.
His claims to public homage, do not, it is
said, lie in the usual stock Of famous actors
He isn't young, beautiful, or insinuating 1t
is all question of talent, of execution. He
doesn't depend upon good looks picturesque
ness of appearance, OF splendid stage clothes.
He isn't even romantic looking in any par
ticular. At first sight he seems formed only
for the broadest comedy.
Mr.. James says he is an image of success as
well as of resolution. 1t came to him the first
time he trod the stage. He has yet to meet
defeat. He has an immense repertory as
well as telling" voice, and in the United
States he will be likely to find plenty Of elbow
room for both.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
THE MODEL AMERICAN GIRL.

A practical, plain young girl;
Not afraid-of-the-rain young girl;
Apoetical posy, :
A ruddy and rosy, ~
A helper-of-self young girl. 1 ~
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS young girl; IS,
a never-will-lace young girl; 5cpka
A toiler serene, 5WFJ'
A life pure and clean, go ="
\ princeSs-of-peace young girl :
A wear-her-own-hair young girl;
free-from stare young girl;
Improves every hour,
No sickly sunfiower,
wealth of-rare-s sense young girl.
Plenty-room-in-her-shoesy young girl;
No indulger-in-blues young girl;
Not bang on her brow,
To fraud not bow,
She's observation-disclosures young girl.
Not reader of-trash young girl;
Not cheap-jewel-fash young girl:
Not slipper of rum,
Not chewer of gum,
4 marvel-of sense young girl.
An early-retiring young girl;
An active, aspiring young girl;
A morning ariser, :. I
A dandy despiser,
A progressive American girl.
A lover of prose young girl;
Not a turn-up-your-nose young girla
Not given TO splutter,
Not utterly utter" J."
But a matter -of-fact young girl a
A rightly ambitious young girl; =
Red lips most-delicious young girl:
A sparkling clear eye,
That says II will try
A sure to-succeed young girl.
An honestly-courting young girl;
a never secn-firting young girl;
A quiet and pure,
An honest, demurc.
A fit-for-a wife young girl.
A sought-everywhere young girl;
A future-most-fair young girl;
An ever discreet.
We too seldom meet
This Queen-among- queens young girl.
Virgil A. Pinkley in Brooklyn Citizen.
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copied from copy of the original by Gilbert
Stuart. 1t is given because Jefferson's in
tention to secure for his country the Asiatic
trade by an overland route across the conti-
nent directly governed and colored the lives
of Fremont, his wife and Col. Benton. This
longheadedness of Jefferson secured to us "the
country from sea to sea-from the Atlantic
to the Pacifc-and upon a breadth equal to
the length of the Mississippi, and embracing
the whole temperate zone" Napoleon, fear
ing that the English would forcibly take the
French possessions in America, sold Louisi-
ana to the United States for $4,000. 900.
sum less than the revenue which has
since been collected on its soil in single
month in time of great public peril. Accord
ing to President Jefferson, louisiana stretched
as far to the northward as the Lake of the
Woods; toward the west as far as the
Rio Grande in the lower part, and in the up
per part to the main chain of the mountains
dividing the waters of the Pacific from the
waters of the Atlantic. The country thus ac-
quired to-day forms the states of Louisiana,
Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Minnesota, west of the Mississippi; Colorado,
north of the Arkansas, besides the Indian
territory, and the territories Of Dakota,
Wyoming and Montana, and it also secured
to US our possession Of Oregon.
Fremont, after three expeditions to
the great west in a governmental capac-
ity, resigned his commission as lieutenant
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
He Never Reached the "Amen,"

A sanity individual who tried to offer up
prayer at the meeting Of his creditors in
Queen Victoria street, New York, not long
ago, did not get as far as "Amen" on that
occasion. Among his creditors was rough
Scotchman, who, as soon as he got over the
amazement at the GOODNESS Of the proceedings,
shouted out: "Sit doom, ye dommed internal
heepocreet. If ye say anither wurd to the
Almighty in my presence dom me if dinna
kick ye" The creditors roared, the petitioner
sat down, and the business of the meeting
proceeded in the manner usual on such oc-
casions -Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
NINE. ADELlNA PATTI.

An Assassin Attempts Her Life and that
of John C. Flood.
In these days of dynamite and cranks,
no one can tell where next the combination
Of the two may bring about a disaster, or who
may fall a victim to it. 1t is seldom though
that the combination works against itself as
successfully as it did the other night in San
Francisco, when crank brought bomb to
the Grand opera house with the supposed in
tention of numbering Nine. Patti at the close
of the performance. The bomb exploded in
the hands of the assassin and prevented what
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
A HOMELESS Case.

In a certain city in Connecticut there lived
a very nall boy with liberal share of small
"original SINS" 1t is charged that one day he
was playing in front of the house and over
heard some street gamin using slang expires.
sions profusely. Mamma, mamma, what's
a gone sucker!" Now, mamma did not in
the least know, but as her son had been dis
obeying her that morning she took the adj
vantage of the opportunity to point good
moral "a gone sucker, my son! Why, it
means naughty little boy who doesn't mind
his mother" That night, as Johnnie was
saying his prayers, the full measure of his sin
seemed to occur to him with awful signif-
canoe, and stopping short the usual petition
he cried out in the abandonment Of his re-
morse 80 Lord, I'm a gone sucker!"-Har-
per's Monthly.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
Another Black.

As those who have been to his Office know,
Gen. Black, commissioner of pensions, has a
pure Ethiopian, with unchangeable skin, for
his doorkeeper, and very good doorkeeper
be is.
Recently Congressman O'Donnell went up
to the commissioners office, and meeting the
black man at the door, be stopped.
"Are you Gen. Black?" he said, banter
ingly.
Gen. Black. Is jis' plain, common black,
sab. Gen. Blacks inside, sah."
The congressman gave the doorkeeper a
cigar and went inside.-Wa Washington Critic.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
THE MOODY SCHOOLS.
UNIQUE INSTITUTIONS AT NORTH
FIELD, MASS.

The House in Which Mr.. Moody Was
Born-His Fiftieth Birthday Celebrated
at the Admirable Schools He Has
Founded.
One of the most unique and successful sys-
tens of education for the youth of both
sexes is in operation on the banks of the Con-
necticut river at Northfield, Mass This sys-
tenn is due to the energy and ability of
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, and it
seems fitting and praiseworthy that he should
have returned to the spot where his own
youthful studies were pursued to put his idea
as regards the education Of the young into
practical shape. Mr.. Moody was born at
Mortified, Feb. 5, 1887. At the age Of 4
years he lost his father, and the mother had
hard struggle to provide for her family and
give them the simplest elements of an educa-
ton.
In his 18th year he went to Boston and
found employment in the shoe store Of his
maternal uncles, Lemuel and Samuel Holton.
Two years later he went to Chicago, where he
was again employed as salesman. Here, as
in Boston, he showed unusual capacity for
business, and, in fact, throughout his whole
career his executive ability has been very
great. In all his plans his head and heart
have been enthusiastically enlisted, and his
efforts have been rewarded with uniform sue
cess His appearance is that of the prosper
Gus man of business and despite the wear and
tear of his manner of life he has been growing
cfn for hv
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

II e C b a II S m still
more scientific than
the human throat.
Surely a man
with a voice like
that will be an OBJ
ject of interest in
this country, 10
matter W h a t h G
says. We are all
much interested in
new inventions, and
some of us will be
greatly interested
in fl n din g ou t
whether Coquelin
has MT inside Of
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

might have been a
terrible ca tas-
troph h e. 1t was
learned, after the
badly III a II 81 e d
crank was taken
into custody, that
he had designs on
j. c. Floods life cs
well as on PATHS.
He had been heard
to say during the
p e r f or m an ce,
"Patti sings well to-
night, but she shall
never sing again. /"
But why murder
a woman who has
brought JOY an d
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
Helena, Montana, Thursday, March 3, 1887.

the mountain district Of Virginia, Kentucky
and Tennessee. He fought Gen. jackson at
Cross Keys, in June. 1862, and soon after re-
signed because lie did not care to serve under
Pope, whom he ranked. He took no further
part in the war.
A small faction of Republicans, dissatisfied
with President Lincoln, met at Cleveland in
1864 and nominated Fremont for president.
He accepted, but learning that the movement
was like ely to prove Insignificant, he withdrew.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

have hot and cold water on every floor. The
boys are divided into groups of about twenty.
under the care of two ladies, forming num-
Der Of distinct families This is very much Of
an improvement over the usual dormitory
system, where from fifty to seventy-five boys
are huddled together on one large floor, and
their very number prevents the constant care
and supervision to which boys and girls are
accustomed in the home, but miss so sadly in
the school.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

magazines, is the
daughter of the
famous Col. Ben
ton, whose statue
in st. Louis bears
on its pedestal the
prophetic word S
which Fremont en-
abled him to make
true, "There is the
east; there is the
road to India"
Among the por-
traits in Fremont's
book and here re-
produced, is one Of
Thomas Jefferson
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

GENERAL FREMONT we find the events
of his busy career narrated with the charm
OF ease and simplicity.
Gen. Fremont is known as the great
American pathfinder as well as a distin-
guished soldier. When quite young he went
to the South American coast as teacher on
board United States sloop of war; Re
turning he went as an assistant engineer of
the United States Typographical corps for
projected railway from Charleston to Gin
cinnati and later under the same commander
made a military reconnaissance of the
Cherokee country in North Carolina, Ten
nessee and Georgia. He says: "The acci-
dent Of this employment curiously began
a period of years of like work for
me among similar scenes. Here l found
the path which I was destined to walk.
Through many of the years to come the occu-
patton of my prime of life was to be among
Indians and in waste places" But it was in
exploring the Rocky mountains to examine
the South Pass, and the unknown region be-
tween the Rocky mountains and the Pacific
ocean that he earned the name of the great
pathfinder His book describes the regions
traversed as they then were, when to cross the
Rocky mountains meant long experience in
hunger, thirst. hardship, danger and possible
death. His narratives of these expeditions
cover broad regions of country and half cent
ury of time. Millions of people now occupy
the ground where he then encountered only
wild animals and wild men. Out of these expe-
ditions came the seizure of California in 1916.
His third exploring party was merged in
battalion which did its part in wrestling Cali
fornia from Mexico.
Gen. Fremont's wife, Jessie Benton FIRE.
mont, well known as a contributor to literary
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

colonel, and in
1S4S, started on .
fourth expedition
at his own expense.
With thirty-three
men and l20 mules
he made his way
through the coun-
try of numerous
b stile Indian
tribes. His object
was to find a prac-
ticable passage to
California. The
party encountered
horrible suffering,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
The Meaning of Senator Vests Boast.

Perhaps Senator Vest, of Missouri, is right
in bis opinion that "five worlds in arms could
not whip the United States OH her own soil,"
but we fondly cherish the hope that Brother
Vests remark is not designed as a challenge
to the universe. In the interest of peace, we
trust it is meant simply as warning which
belligerent planets with disposition to swoop
out of their orbits and bump up against the
earth will have the sense to heed-Philadel-
phia Press
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A Mistake.

Ny car, you know, was number thirty;
And by the crossing she would wait:
When streets were dry or streets were dirty,
Each day found her sure as fate
Ah, me, with what pretty motion
She waved her dainty little glovel
loved at sight, and I'd notion
That she returned my ardent love.
grew to look with heart a-beating
To see her standing coyly there,
And passion thrilled my tender greeting
Whene'er murmured Miss, your farer
But now vainly try to blot her
From out heart of miseree,
For she was but female spotter-
sit still, my soul-she spotted me.
Sun ard Voice.
ba nnSer plated bon bon trays, with tongs,
nave been introduced at the Fashionable
.uicheon parties in New York with undoubt.
ed success. "-'D u'iuouo'-
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war he threw his
w h hole influence
against the extern
sion of slavery and
in favor of free
labor. Gen. FIRE.
mont has written
memoirs Of My
Life" and Bedford,
Clark & Co. have
just issued the first
volume of it. In
this splendidly il
lustrated and most
entertaining book
c1 Al z&-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
Mrs. Fremont.

Gen. John C. Fremont will be figure in
history long after others now standing in the
glare Of popular interest shall have passed
away He was the first Republican candidate
for the presidency, and in days before the
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03
GENERAL FREMONT.
THE GREAT AMERICAN PATHFINDER
AND THE WORK OF HIS LIFE.

The Overland Way from Sea to Sea-The
Generals Anti-Slavery views-His Rec
ord as a Soldier During the Civil War.
NIrc- Eromnut
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-03-03

Gen. Fremont's wife, jessie Benton Ere
mont well known as a contributor to literary
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-31
Hayanh Weekly Market.

HAVANA, Jan. go -Sugar-OWing to
the scarcity of stock, holders insisted on
their demands, and little business was
done during the week, closing quiet. At
the outports markets were firm and de-
mand better.
MoIasses sugar, regular to good polari-
cation, 81 374@l Sl4 gold per quintal.
Muscovado, fair to good retiniDg,Sl 625
al SD
Centrifugal, 92@9S degrees polariza-
ton, 50 lS4@2 AZ.
Stocks III warehouse at Havana
aud Matauzas 10 500 boxes, lS2, ZOO
bags and 300 hogsheads,
Receipts for the week PA boxes, g., 900
bags and 75S hog>heads.
Exports during the week 100 boxes,
"a 600 bags and 227 hogsheaus, of which
42l boxes and 10000 bags were to the
United States.
Bacon, $l3 80 gold per cwt.
Butter, superior American, $50 gold
per quintal.
Flour, Sll25 gold per barrel for Amer
lean.
Jerked beef, $40 so gold per quintal.
Hams, American sugar-Cured, $3.50
gold per Quint6l for northern and S22 for
southern.
Lard in kegs sll rs gold per quintal in
tins $l3 %
Potatoes, American 81 81! gold per
barrel.
Empty hogsheads 81 70 gold.
Lumber quiet.
Shocks dull.
White navy beans SIS On gold per quintal.
Chewing tobacco S26 90 gold per
quintal.
Hoops quiet; long shaved $45 90 gold
per 1000.
Frelghts quiet; per hogshead of sugar
Loading at Havana for the United States
s. 25@2 50 gold; per hogshead of sugar
from ports on the north COST Outside
port~) for the United States 81 50@2 IS.
Exchange steady
Spanish gold 22S3@ 229.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-31
The following Books Handsomely Bound in Cloth, and
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Adam Bede, Adventures Among the In.
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ia, Bits of Bla' ney, Book of Snobs,
Called Back, Cast Up by the Sea, Chill
dren of the Abbey, Complete Letter Writ
er, Daughter of Heth, Deep Down, Dick,
EMS Child's History, Dickens Shorter
Stories, Dickens Story Teller, Don
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Bold, Ethan Brand, Felix Holt, Fern
Leaves, Fire Brigade, Frankenstein and
Dennis Duval, Franklin's Autobiography.
Gems of Oratory, Green Pastures and
Piccadilly, Grimm's Popular Tales, La
dies and Gentlemen's Etiquette, Ladies
Lindores, Lady of Lyons, Last Days of
Pompeii, Last of the Mohicans, Macleod
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Her bridesmaids, Max Seaworth, Mid
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Mrs Godfrey, Murders of the Rue
Morgue, Mysterious Island, Noted French
Orators, Oliver Twist, Our Mutual
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-31
AREMINISCENCE.
Mrs, John NJ. Murphy and the Discovery
of Gold.

Mrs John NJ. Murphy and the Discovery
of Gold.
Santa Cruz Sentinel.
The closing days of 1876 presented far
different scene to the eyes of Mrs. John
NJ. Murphy of San Jose, and sister of Mrs.
Lewis, than the closing days of 1886.
Then she was at Bonner Lake with q
party hemmed in by snow, and anxiOusly
waiting for that relief which did not come
for weeks afterwards. at is a
curious fact" she began, "that the credit
of the gold discovery was never given to
the man to whom it rightly belongs. 1t
WAS discovered in the winter OF &c and
~, in cabin in which we were at Bonner
Lake, seated by fire, each busy with his
or her own thoughts. That awful time
at Bonner Lake is as firmly Undecided in
my m, m0ry as if hammered there by
hammers Of iron. AS | said we were
seated around the fire when John Denton,
q guusmith by trade, while knocking off
chips of the rock on which the wood was
placed, saw something shining. He eX-
amined it and pronounced it gold. He
then knocked off more chips from the
rocks, and hunted in the asaes for more
of the shining particles, until he had
gathered tablespoonful. He wrapped
the gold in Il piece of buckskin, and put
it in his pocket. When the first relief
party came he went out with it, but died on
the way and the gold was buried with
him. When l saw my father, Mr. Reed,
told him of the circumstance, and, said
he, IF John Denton says that that is
gold, it is gold, for he knows My
father intended TO go back to Bonner
Lake to search for the precious metal,
but before he started gold was discover
ed at Suffers Fork, hence he did not re-
turn to the lake. | think that if thor
ough search is made. gold can be found
at the present day at the lake or near it.
Not much gold has since been found
there, because no regular prospect has
been made for it.
81 have been told that the rocks which
We used IN the fireplace were washed
down to the lake from mountain in
which gold was, but this mountain was
probably many miles away from the lake.
"When any one asks me about the dis
covery OF gold, | say that John Denton
was the first discoverer of gold in Cali
fOrnian
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-31
DALLAS.
Sudden Death of a Section Hand-ghe sun
day Law Enforced.

day Law Enforced.
Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX Jan. 3O-John Gavion,
a section hand on the Houston and Texas
Central, died suddenly to-day at ~
O'Clock from unknown causes. About
IL 80 he was in his quarters at the sec
tion-house, apparently well enough. A
few minutes later he was called to dinner
but answered back that he was not feel
ing well and didn't care to eat. A few
minutes after II, one of the wOrkmen
found him in the forage-house, quite dead.
There we=e no signs of violence or strug-
Cling. He had been drinking
hard of late, and the general opinion is
that this was the cause of his death,
though from it's suddenness, poison is
suspected. Whether taken by accident,
or with suicidal intent, there is no evil
denCe. Physicians say that the death was
too quick for morphine. Justice Brass
well summoned Jury, who found YER
dict in accordance with the above. De-
ceased was about fifty years old.
Archie Moonlight was arrested last
night for stealing ale IRON the Hopkins L
Co. stock recovered from the late fire.
Jim Clark yesterday morning succeeded
in purloining watch and chain from an
aged citizen of East Dallas. Last night
he got on bender, and running short of
funds but still determined to keep up the
fun, he pawned the stolen property to a
saloon keeper. He had been described
to the police and they had already
spotted him. AS soon as he
had parted with the watch
and chain, and was proceed
ing to lsy in full sup
ply of juice, they tapped him on
the shoulder, and kindly invited him to
partake of the hospitalities of the Gala
boose. Jim was unfortunately minus g
thumb; and when whisky robbed him Of
his brain, he was easily caught.
The Sunday law is enforced tosthe let
ter. The laundries were closed last night
at y O'Clock.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-31

81 Go, during which Swain killed Dono.
hue. Deputy United States Marshal
Pelly brought Swain in last night and left
with him this morning for Fort Smith,
Ark.
Some weeks ago J. d. Thomas, charged
with asssssinating enc Thompson IN the
eastern part of the county, was allowed
bail in the sum of $4,000, physicians
having testified that his health would be
seriously endangered by keeping him in
Jail during the winter Thomas was I'M
able to make the bond, and yesterday
application was made to have the bail re-
duced, which was refused by Judge Piner
after hearing the testimony.
The jury summoned to inquire into the
death of the negro giant, Stuart Brock
man, who fell dead at the depot Yesterday
afternoon, returned verdict that de-
ceased died of heart disease.